When’s Deere season start where you live ? 
I ‘plink’ to keep the scope accurate for coyotes. Unfortunatly, coyotes don’t give a fuck.
Sorry, I have not shot or even held the FN 5.7 to compare with the Ruger.
As for taking the Ruger Mark III apart there are two steps where you have to insert an empty magazine into the gun, remove it then proceed. I always have to get the manual out and look up how. The Mark II I had involves none of that silliness, you just swing the mainspring out and pull it down and out. I understand that the Mark IV is even easer.
The wisdom of involving a magazine, empty or not, in the disassembly of a gun escapes me.
Sure it’s fine, just I wish I got something else. The extractor sucks. I replaced it with a fancier one (Volquartsen I think). Still sucks. Maybe it’s one of the other custom things I did, I don’t know.
Fun story: Our club was in the sub-basement of a building. We could change targets on the fly, by going down to the sub-sub-basement. The targets were on pulleys, and we could pull ours down, attach, and hoist the target for the next shooter. It was a courtesy we all showed each other.
But down in the sub-sub basement, you’d occasionally find cockroaches. And if you did, you’d catch it, tape it on a target, and challenge the next shooter to blow its head off. It might typically be taped in the seven-ring, so you could see it.
I’ve never brought down a deer or a squirrel, but I brought down many cockroaches.
The Mk III has a magazine disconnect. You can’t pull the trigger without a magazine in place, loaded or not. Disassemby/reassembly requires pulling the trigger. Hence the need to install the magazine. Other than that quirk, it’s the same as the Mk IIs.
TandomKross makes a bushing to delete the magazine disconnect assembly if you desire to do so.
Thanks, that is good to know but it isn’t really much of a problem. I have been watching some youtube clips about the Mark VI. It looks to be very easy to take apart. I now have an excuse for another pistol.
When is that stimulus check coming?
It’s been about 50 years since I shot a .22 at targets. I had great eyes, and for some reason it was about the only thing the hyperactive kid I once was could stand stock still for.
I’m impressed your club’s basement was that big. We did ‘gallery shooting’, I think the term is, at 50 feet, if this A17 target is right. Sure looks like the 10 + 1 center bull targets I used to shoot. 5 prone, 5 sitting, 5, kneeling, 5 offhand. 29 minutes. Putting the slow in slowfire. Did it in a converted Quonset hut add-on looking thing.
What size cockroaches? A lot tougher to hit at 50 m than 50 feet, I’m sure.
I have a Ruger Mark IV pistol and can confirm that they are much easier to break down than earlier models. I also have a Mark II for comparison, a great gun and the disassembly is not that bad if you do it regularly but when you do it after a couple years… yes, it’s tricky!
When I go shooting I actually load a trailer full of stuff. Guns, ammo, tools, chair, shooting table, bench rest, etc.
I love that tractor, I would never shoot it
They were about an inch, inch-and-a-half, or so.
We had a 20-yard range. I cannot find a representation of the targets we used, but our target sheets had 12 targets on them, in a 4 x 3 array. The two targets in the centre were for sighting, and the remaining 10 were for scoring (one shot per target). The cockroach would be taped to one of the sighting targets, or sometimes between them, to make it easier to see.
Lighting makes a big difference in what you can easily see down at the target, as I’m sadly finding out now in my late 40s. Amazing the stuff you take for granted as a kid. Plain irons (versus a peep sight) are even worse. I see why you’d put the doomed bugs in between the sighters.
The reason I asked about roach size, is we get all kinds in this buggy-as-Hell state. From little German cockroaches, to these guys. And contrary to the text at that link, they’re often bigger than 2 inches. They can be 3 to 4.